can goes in favor. of the serial vote against. by extension an area have a un security council approves a no fly zone over libya so where do things go from here we'll have a live report from the i.a.e.a. has absolutely no ability to deal with this problem any more than the japanese government hold on aren't they the very people who should so just where is the international atomic energy agency as japan nears a nuclear meltdown. and while general electric may be off the hook in japan could their business in india be on the chopping block. the american dream is

a bust for the moment for a lot of people and so is the people's trust in our government so we've got the system that's in decline or was the u.s. credit to fail all along. well it is thursday march seventeenth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for sound and watching our team. we begin with breaking news the united nations security council has moments of moments ago voted on a resolution imposing a no fly zone extending over all of libya and that quote all necessary means can be used to protect citizens this is of course an attempt to try to halt libyan leader moammar gadhafi is mounting attacks against rebel positions there are the course on honest answer churkin to is live in our new york studio not far from the u.n. and brings us the very latest on this breaking. on the south it seems to me the key

phrase here all necessary means what are we talking about airstrikes ground forces what do you know. well christine you know this vote certainly comes at a very unexpected time even though we knew it is likely to happen because of a long period of really nail biting and guessing games of what could come out of the united nations security council with so many cooks in the kitchen suggesting different ways of handling what is going on in libya what has happened just moments ago as the united nations security council as you said has passed a no fly zone resolution ten members of the security council voted for it five members of skiing and there were zero no votes now it's important to note that russia china germany india were among the countries who were saying that they're not really happy with putting in place a no fly zone but they did that they were among the ones that ended up abstaining so what's the four bric countries brazil russia india china and germany but

nonetheless nine votes were enough to pass this and this is what happens and what this resolution includes is not just a no fly zone but also like you said quote all necessary measures and we're hearing that this includes airstrikes on living tanks and the use of heavy artillery we've got a collaborative effort here as you just mentioned several countries approving this i'm wondering if you have any idea who will be acting first who will be getting in there and also the reaction on the ground in libya have you heard anything. well christine you know i have to say a lot of the details of these discussions of the security council have really been up in the air and since this resolution was literally passed moments ago we do not know many of the details of exactly who is going to step up the game who is going to start first was going to sort of lead this u.n. back to coalition we have been hearing reports coming from the french press suggesting that as early as tonight france britain and the united arab emirates could already start striking at gadhafi forces we're going to have to wait and see

whether or not that actually ends up happening in terms of what's going on on the ground we have had a very strong reaction take before take place before the vote or khadafi has said that if the security council passes a resolution they're going to consider this resolution illegal and immoral so it looks like events are going to be pretty harsh on the ground but in terms of more details we have to find out what officials are going to be saying in the hours to come that's what i wanted to know i mean certainly all eyes right now i think it's fair to say are on benghazi and it could be a matter of hours before things change there i'm wondering if you have seen anything or heard anything in your research on this and keeping a close eye on it as to what we should expect. i mean what we should expect now is the united nations security council to start implementing what they have just voted on and meaning imposing this no fly zone imposing all of these measures that they have in mind which means that the forces that have backed this resolution just now

are going to get closer to libyan territory and start acting on what they have just voted on in terms of what's going on in gaza we know that it often forces a really big ozzy's the town where the opposition sort of camp is be the main opposition area and we know that khadafi is has approached that area right now so definitely we should be expecting some sort of military breakouts in the hours to come i know this just happened on it but a lot of people are already sort of connecting the historical dots here. similar situations between what's happening here and what happened previously we think about yugoslavia back in one thousand nine hundred nine and a president clinton out of course was under nato. you know a couple similarities there we've got stubborn leader both with gadhafi and with slobodan milosevic was with probably had a little more technology to work with i'm wondering if you're hearing some of these

connections being made and what you're hearing. christine you know you're absolutely right that is certainly one of the comparisons were hearing and happened hearing throughout this last month of this civil war breaking out in libya certainly a lot of experts have been comparing what's going on now and what's to start happening in the hours to come to the events of one thousand nine hundred nine in yugoslavia and certainly even when the no fly zone in itself just that was being considered by the united states and the rest of the international community a lot of analysts were saying look this is just you know history repeating we have to be really careful here and they were really insisting that just a no fly zone would be a similar situation at. the very end but with these more military measures that the international community has now decided to include when it comes to dealing with libya we're certainly going to have to wait and see how similarly events will start playing out in libya what about boots on the ground wondering if you started to hear you know we talk about the no fly zone and the potential for who could get in

there it doesn't seem at this point to me that people are going to start sending in ground troops. well at this point i do not think that this is something that is being a priority because essentially the mean goal and the mean sort of elements of this resolution is the no fly zones that we're talking about which means that there are going to be aerial strikes primarily and that is why it's the international community once it's considered to be able to really carry out aerial attacks on the libyan leader's airplanes quite now essentially with more of these military measures being implemented we have to understand that of course it just does not mean only aerial attacks on airplanes but of course tanks like i had mentioned earlier an air strikes onto the ground and terms of boots on the ground right there in libya we're going to have to wait and see if that is going to happen that is certainly one of the things that have been talked about here we don't know exactly what and what country those soldiers if they are found on the ground in the next

eastercon are going to come from and we do expect to know a lot more in the next hour on and started her going to thanks for keeping an eye on all of that for us well a developing crisis an unprecedented disaster i'm talking of course about the situation in japan and the fukushima daiichi plant so dangerous in fact that our t. has pulled its crews out of the area well workers at the power plant and japanese authorities rush against the clock there's another agency that seems to be moving at a snail's pace and talking about the i.a.e.a. or international atomic energy agency responsible for keeping tabs on all cases of peaceful use of nuclear power artie's arena gluco reports on its role in the crisis which appears now to be pretty minor. i missed reports that radiation levels in the japanese capital could be up to eleven times the norm people scramble to get away from the invisible killer here in tokyo series do seem to be less visible usual at

the epicenter of the plans nuclear disaster fifty people remain struggling to keep the reactors under control but wait where is the international atomic energy agency the exponents of the peaceful use of nuclear power here here in japan arriving four days after the first explosion at the nuclear plant the i.a.e.a. as well as a promoter of nuclear power whose job is not to necessarily be able to come to the rescue of failed attempts at maintaining quality design and and protecting the public from natural disaster such as we're dealing with here although they'll sell that message when the twin the proof the proof is in the putting you can clearly see that the i.a.e.a. has absolutely no ability to deal with this problem any more than the japanese government the very people who should be keeping tabs on the situation seem to have barely will direct involvement in it in fact until now the only source of information was the japanese government for years the organization has been busy

with their mission statement to maintain nuclear energy for peaceful means in two thousand and five and made increase inspections of rain in facilities the organization and its then chairman mohamed el baradei i was awarded a nobel peace prize but by the looks of it concerns over a possible unsanctioned uses of nuclear energy by countries like iran seem to have overshadowed the clear and present dangers of already existing nuclear power plants in countries like japan and now it's the remaining workers who have to battle fire smoke and radiation at what remains of the fukushima power plant there's only fifty people out on the plants of the mobs and they're working fifteen minute shifts which is which is very little and they have to work very many things by. because remote control installations have gone down the main operator rule is not usable because of radiation levels they're working under extremely difficult circumstances

to try to prevent the worst from the worst with all six we are finding a good only fifty people remain face to face with a problem putting their lives interests rather high in my view these seem to confirm from watching on from a safe distance in. tokyo not a spy with some of the stockholders might fear general electric is unlikely to be held liable for the failure of those nuclear reactors at the fukushima plant still there is some reaction to this on a global scale including in a country that has lately been dripping in developments i'm talking about india and our prius where there is a new delhi with more. reaction here in india has been mixed especially considering that the chairman of g.e. jeffrey immelt was actually in india this week promoting his company's interest in investing millions of dollars into india's nuclear program which is estimated to be worth around one hundred fifty billion dollars he announced that he plans to spend

five million dollars here within the next five years but obviously many indians are worried about what they're seeing over in japan as you mentioned g.e. did design those nuclear reactors that have caused so much damage and destruction in fukushima and according to japanese law g.e. will not be held liable for any of god which could save them potentially tens to hundreds of billions of dollars now this comes on top of the huge scandal that's rocking india today wiki leaks the whistle blowing web site actually released thousands of cables showing that americans knew about bribes to indian politicians to make them sign with the u.s. nuclear deal back in two thousand and eight so that's clearly not helping american image here in the subcontinent right now as i stated before it's one hundred fifty billion dollars business here in india india is planning on increasing its nuclear atomic generation thirteen times by twenty thirty so there are several american

companies not just g.e. that are very keen on trying to get a stake in that but as of right now india doesn't want to have another potential disaster like what they're seeing over in japan happening here especially given the fact that g.e. isn't really being held responsible or accountable for what's happening over there so only time will tell but as you've seen since the days following the disaster g.e. stocks have been tumbling so you know we're going to have to wait and see what effect that has on its future plans to build nuclear reactors around the world and here in india as well and that was our correspondent there from new delhi india. and certainly india in the race to move ahead. but many people here in america point out a certain decline that's taking place it is in fact become the cancer phrase lately for many of the potential republican presidential candidates for the twenty twelve election they say over and over american decline. well the country of mars and two

wars and confronting a thirteen trillion dollar deficit as americans are increasingly getting felt with the fed and they're taking to the streets argue kalen ford has more on the policies and politics that are breaking down confidence in america itself a what began with a tiny a surprising was. that station with stagnant wages and widening wealth. there's no reason that everybody can have a little bit of a pie. not the top two percent should get everything the level of confidence in the u.s. government is the lowest and thirty five years according to a recent poll as budgets go broke and both parties top the power to raise it to big corporations and lobbyists were seen at hijacking the mark to see.

the great the people and occupied these offices demanding the return of collective bargaining rights in wisconsin and across the united states and saying if they see an attack i like to pass on all until we get the intention of the entire united states working class families and will be in every state in every city and show the recognition is here it's a symptom of the growing unrest spreading across america as food prices rose breed put nine percent in february with syrian rebels in august of going to lose. everything going on the killing of fifty don and i get a lot of things the largest monthly gain in thirty six years that's a tragedy of inflation it redistribute income from some people who get the new or to the people who get the new money first and from the people that whose has what. we visited coupled with the highest gasoline costs for american households expected

to reach two thousand eight hundred dollars this year and say the federal reserve's monetary policies are squeezing regular americans dry people or or are being stretched financially and i think some of them are also gold because they see the dismissive attitude of the federal reserve. and that speculation on wall street has brought more anger to main street and the american dream is a bust for the moment for a lot of people. but not i would say for the bankers and the speculators on wall street they they are nimble enough and they operate in very liquid marketable vehicles like stocks bonds commodities that kind of thing so they're able to preserve their wealth in inflationary my. breast has even become the highlight of the kid doesn't campaign but whether either party will be able to control it or harnessed as fresh through the entire political i mean. even ford are

washington d.c. . so as we're seeing more and more and just reported confidence in the u.s. system of government at its lowest point in thirty five years with just twenty six percent of americans saying they're optimistic about our government and how well it works this according to a new a.b.c. news washington post poll so what does this all mean particularly when looking ahead to an uncertain future to help answer this question i go to austin texas where radio host alex jones is. all right alex here and i have spoken about this before and here it is these blaring numbers not think that nine hundred seventy four have people had this flow of confidence in the system of government and this is the year remember that president nixon resigned just after the most unpopular war the vietnam war and here we are today what do you think americans are so worried about. well you notice the tea party shangri and then you've also got the so-called left or the unions who are angry but this is the wages of globalism this

is been the globalist plan wall street financed john mccain they financed barack obama barack obama run by wall street openly has called for more taxes because they're going to transfer those taxes offshore to the big mega central banks that are represented here in the u.s. by the private seller reserves so what's going to happen is the government is going to use these giant hordes of people having their wages cut losing their insurance having their pension funds raided loose upon what's left of the middle class chain give us a piece of the pie they're going to take people who are making one hundred thousand two hundred thousand dollars they're going to take their money and then they're never really even going to get any of it and it's going to go to the bankers so this is all been very carefully orchestrated and they've done this in third world nations and european nations over and over again and so it's so it's a very sophisticated issue pressure from above and below instead of looking at the

actual cause of this we're looking at the symptoms but this is nafta this is gap this is deindustrialization this is globalism this is the out of control regulation smothering jobs in north america and shipping them to the third world in developing countries like china if you don't write off the one point five quadrillion to reduce created by the big six megabytes that we're paying most of our taxes to pay off that we don't owe if we go the way of greece and ireland who have signed on to pay debts. but the bankers then there's no way to get out of this you could get rid of all the wealth or you could get rid of the union you could get rid of social security and it would never pay off for a fraction of the one point five could really have the bankers interim you're good to take but once most powerful wealthy nation in the world and turn us into get servants so the tea party doesn't understand it's really it's very complex and the mainline liberals are protesting change give us more of the pie the pi's been rob

the bankers are the right target the big central bankers but you don't defeat them by raising taxes and handing out some more chicken feet you defeat them by arresting them for the crimes they've committed and writing off their one thousand five hundred trillion you talk about this large portions of the pie going to the bankers there's also another place that a lot of the pie is going to announce the defense budget is certainly in this poll there was another set of questions that was asked of the people and these are questions related to the war in afghanistan now first of all the question is the war worth fighting sixty four percent said no and when asked whether or not president obama should start pulling troops out this summer as a rigidly planned seventy three percent that's almost three quarters of this country say yes so alex who is right or just a month who is described as a writer the people. well the people are right and these wars are unconstitutional and illegal so it's also illegal what's happening but. the polls you're citing are quote scientific other scientific polls show eleven percent approval rating of

congress show over eighty percent wanting to end the war they always say they're going to end the war in two years and now they've announced it two more years this is all a manipulation it's all basically psychological warfare and that's why the us is becoming more authoritarian because as it becomes evident that the people are being ignored that we actually don't run this country there's going to be resistance around and it's like you see in the middle east and the governments answer is to clamp down the john warner fence talk recession act of two thousand and seven states that the pentagon is preparing for insurrection in the states and a syquest eight governors and legislatures we don't have a real government we have a rogue government that is basically looting this country and until you get a real government back in place any reform will only be twisted into a scam to further vertically integrate well so long it's hundreds of billions in bonuses every year either of those parasites go who are waging war on the real

economy or there is no end in sight things are only going to get worst on this journey towards our well your nightmare and things like what you're saying al is that all sort of thurles back to the same place every time you were talking about unrest in the middle east we've also seen a little bit of it i hear in this country we certainly thought in wisconsin we just found report kalen said as it were thinking of it here i didn't think this is perhaps the start of something bigger. oh undoubtedly the pentagon four years ago called our public reports preparing for martial law and civil unrest but not pointing out what it triggered it food prices the commodities the dollar devaluation british ministry of defense four years ago as well this is all been planned out i've been to urban warfare drills in the last decade where they have role players saying i'm an american go take my guns don't put me in a camp and so my film released a two thousand and three on the web they have been preparing this the rand corporation has written plans this is economic conquest by the art for private banks against the entire world would you do what russia did and kick out the

oligarchy and arrest them instead of letting them fairly rob us i think it's interesting that you brought up the food prices to this is certainly something that's very current and i we're getting new numbers out these prices continue to rise and that thirdly as is going to be passed on to those consumers what do you think i mean there's talk of inflation there's talk of different things but just in this growing number of hungry people in america talk about that as it relates to this if frustration with i'm well as you know it goes like egypt half the population makes two dollars or less a day and here in this nation our courts spend inordinate amounts of their money on basic transportation and food and as food prices are the highest they've been in the end x. or since the early one nine hundred seventy s. when people start losing everything in their bellies are going to have to get desperate and we now see reports that forty three states are technically grain crops and the federal government's preparing to bail them out of the federal

government's even more bankrupt statistically the greece or ireland and so again either we write off all this fraudulent debt start over make wall street take a severe haircut or these greedy people are going to like a horde of locusts eat the meat off our bones and fly off to the next country so it's just that simple and you know allies we don't usually talk too much about major international issues. but i was on your website earlier in present time and i saw that you had written something about the pentagon as it relates to the situation in japan and give us sort of your take just very briefly on what you see i have been here well it's just like the guardian reports today about robots take social network systems pushing us propaganda you know it's bankers and criminal corporations that have seized the us it's their propaganda in america's name will not in my name and. it's the same thing that you were just talking about the cia is on record over in japan managing things for general electric

a clue shima cataclysm the chaplain so they can keep building more of these dangerous reactors all over the world because the cia doesn't work for us they work for wall street that created the cia and it runs our nation it's simple america does not run our america that's why it's gone from a lot of liberty and admired an example of human dignity and freedom of the example of the evil empire just as the soviet empire was an evil one car ronald reagan called out this in paris even bigger and better and more scientific but it goes down or we all go down with it we don't have a choice it's all sort of them two sides we're at a historic crossroads right now right alex jones radio host of the alex jones show joining us from austin well when we talk about the impact of a broken system nowhere is it more apparent more glaring than in the stories of people i want to tell you now the story of a young woman in her early twenty's who graduated magna cum laude from the art institute of colorado has got a job working at saks fifth avenue in

a store that's about to close and is also colorado usa where griffith and her mother are also homeless here's blair story. my mom and i were evicted from our home last november and everything and it's been going back and or. friends crashing on their couches because we can't find a place of our own this can't financially or lines and on top of that my position at that avenue you know is going to be terminated on march nineteenth because unfortunately our store is closing so it's been there that in two days from now you have you know you're going to do. i'm. sorry right now i got only i'm in the process of applying for unemployment and i currently have been submitting my resume to different places just trying to find a new job you seem like a smart girl you went to college what do you think it says i know that your case

has certainly gotten a lot more attention because of your crown as miss colorado but what do you think it says that the people just like you with with who are smart with the grave are finding themselves in situations like this crashing on couches staying at friends yeah it just goes to show i'm not alone if that's the after the attention that my story had received through the news i've gotten so many e-mails from people all across the country who have been there in the same exact situation and it's very unfortunate that there are many people who have a challenge and have back tried to be because of they can't get themselves in a place where they are if it does well and it has nothing to do with reason if they think there's a mint condition or misconception that people have that oh it's just because people are lazy or not keeping the time to work hard and completely untrue what in your opinion is standing in the way of few of them and people like you for what really

getting good jobs and being able to support yourself even being able to afford an apartment. it's just a trend that's going on in the economy i don't know who can fix it but if you. so i don't know what the solution is to it but it's not uncommon right now to the businesses closing because consumers can't afford to shop. everything from kids being in school and activities causing more even something as simple as getting a babysitter is costing more money and it's just the trend of going on and unfortunate and you don't seem angry shouldn't you be angry about this. i think be angry about it would be a waste of time if i sat around and dealt with in the world is against me that i win in a car u.s. baier right now i wouldn't have i would be talking to you right now i wouldn't be trying to find another job i would literally just be defeated and i think that's just a waste of time but we do live in

a country we live in america where you know what the government should be helping people like you what do you think needs to change and are you at all you know you're not angry very you are frustrated with the government and the fact that this you know economic you know getting out of the slump is sort of taking a long time except my question i do agree that the government should be able to help all of us that are going through this situation and i think the only way we can help is to like need not be embarrassed about the situation that i'm in and go ahead and count on it and i think a lot of people of meetings don't care if they are losing their homes or have to go stay with a friend or losing their job because no one wants to admit that they're not just well. we're all get over the whole embarrassment and start speaking out about it then maybe more attention will be drawn to it because i don't think.